{{Short description|1941 novel}} {{infobox book | name =The Twenty-One Clues | title_orig = | translator = | image =File:The Twenty-One Clues.jpg | caption = | author = J.J. Connington | illustrator = | cover_artist = | country = United Kingdom | language = English | series = Sir Clinton Driffield | genre = Detective | publisher =Hodder and Stoughton | release_date = 1941 | english_release_date = | media_type = Print | pages = | isbn = | preceded_by = For Murder Will Speak | followed_by = No Past Is Dead }} '''''The Twenty-One Clues''''' is a 1941 detective novel by the British author Alfred Walter Stewart, published under his pseudonym J.J. Connington.<ref>Murphy p.152</ref> It is the fourteenth in a series of seventeen novels featuring the Golden Age Detective Sir Clinton Driffield, the Chief Constable of a rural English county. It was published by Hodder and Stoughton in London and Little, Brown and Company in the United States.<ref>Reilly p.347</ref>
==Synopsis== Two bodies are spotted by an engine driver in some bracken close to the railway line. A man and a woman, unmarried to each other and rumoured to have had an affair despite their respectable backgrounds, have apparently taken part in a suicide pact.
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==Bibliography== * Evans, Curtis. ''Masters of the "Humdrum" Mystery: Cecil John Charles Street, Freeman Wills Crofts, Alfred Walter Stewart and the British Detective Novel, 1920-1961''. McFarland, 2014. * Hubin, Allen J. ''Crime Fiction, 1749-1980: A Comprehensive Bibliography''. Garland Publishing, 1984. *Murphy, Bruce F. ''The Encyclopedia of Murder and Mystery''. Springer, 1999. * Reilly, John M. ''Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers''. Springer, 2015.
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